Comments on: 30 Days of GAS http://blog.greenanysite.com/index.php/2008/12/30-days-of-gas/ Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:13:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Amaury http://blog.greenanysite.com/index.php/2008/12/30-days-of-gas/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Amaury Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:13:46 +0000 http://blog.greenanysite.com/?p=10#comment-51 Nice site and nice idea :) Good luck ! Nice site and nice idea :)
Good luck !

]]> By: Tal Ater http://blog.greenanysite.com/index.php/2008/12/30-days-of-gas/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Tal Ater Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:29:28 +0000 http://blog.greenanysite.com/?p=10#comment-47 There are a few problems with plugins like Effortless Good and I ♥ Miro: <ol> <li>They only support a limited number of sites, namely the various Amazons. Green Any Site, well... it greens any site.</li> <li>They hijack the affiliate code or inject a user cookie without the user actually taking a direct action. This is directly in violation of any affiliate agreement I've ever read. And indeed I heard that I ♥ Miro's account was closed by Amazon, and while I am not familiar with Efortless Good, their site is also down which isn't a good sign. GAS is manually invoked by the user, and then the user clicks an affiliate link so it doesn't violate affiliate terms.</li> </ol> That said, I agree that having users remember to click the bookmarklet is a problem... But I do have some ideas on how to change that soon. There are a few problems with plugins like Effortless Good and I ♥ Miro:

  1. They only support a limited number of sites, namely the various Amazons. Green Any Site, well… it greens any site.
  2. They hijack the affiliate code or inject a user cookie without the user actually taking a direct action. This is directly in violation of any affiliate agreement I’ve ever read. And indeed I heard that I ♥ Miro’s account was closed by Amazon, and while I am not familiar with Efortless Good, their site is also down which isn’t a good sign. GAS is manually invoked by the user, and then the user clicks an affiliate link so it doesn’t violate affiliate terms.

That said, I agree that having users remember to click the bookmarklet is a problem… But I do have some ideas on how to change that soon.

]]> By: børge http://blog.greenanysite.com/index.php/2008/12/30-days-of-gas/comment-page-1/#comment-37 børge Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:42:28 +0000 http://blog.greenanysite.com/?p=10#comment-37 This is a great idea, but it could be implemented better. To ask users to remember to click a bookmarklet before every time they buy anything is not a good idea. It's a hazel, and most ppl will forget it at least once! Instead you should do like <a href="http://www.getmiro.com/blog/2008/03/effortless-good-shop-at-amazon-help-the-world/" rel="nofollow">Effortless Good</a> and create a Firefox plugin which does all the work for you, so that the process is automatic, and therefor as easy as it can be, and impossible to forget. :) This is a great idea, but it could be implemented better. To ask users to remember to click a bookmarklet before every time they buy anything is not a good idea. It’s a hazel, and most ppl will forget it at least once!

Instead you should do like Effortless Good and create a Firefox plugin which does all the work for you, so that the process is automatic, and therefor as easy as it can be, and impossible to forget. :)

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